Living With Emunah (Part 151): The Complications of a Cup of Coffee

[Music] good morning and bokor to welcome back to our living with Emunah series it's great to be together again and as always want to thank god i'm goona a series for the year sponsors dr. Xavi and Bela Morgan deeply indebted for your for your generosity who sponsored the series in memory of our dear beloved friend rabbi dr. Brian Gabby barks you've been relaying nah son who was a embodiment of all the things that we learned about teaching about the truth does each and every week I could just stay here and tell stories about Brian gabot and that would be the ultimate the ultimate lessons of living with em you know living with emunah and leaving this world with them who know he was and continues to be a great source of inspiration to all of us also want to thank our dear friend Sal and Leslie Abadie in honor of their children Joey and Marissa a body a body and their expected baby please God should be healthy and happy and well and give them lots and lots of nacos please God from all of their family we continued living with him when we learned this amazing piece by revita Marsh warts the author of the bill Vavi Michigan EV net and he has been teaching in these trying times and in all times happy said easy and difficult how we can feel the presence of Hashem his guiding hand on our shoulder his loving embrace his support to be able to lean on him as we go through life as we go through life so a beautiful shot I think was from the option of a rabbit we same is more load of inshallah should as we say it on Shabbos but chapter 23 Psalm 23 Miz more dovish m ro e lo XR the Lord is my shepherd I shall not relax I saw two interesting Shelton before we even dive back into what we're studying together Hashem removi God is my shepherd I'm a sheep I'm simply a sheep I'm simply a member of his flock he is my shepherd the Shepherd's job but the Shepherd's role is to protect the flock is to lead the flock and the flock can be have a sense of assurance and comfort knowing that the shepherd is in charge so Hashem ruine we declare miss Morland of the psalm of david hashem rehash m is my shepherd lo XR the simple translation is that if I Shem is my shepherd Louis R I'm not lacking anything I'm not missing anything but the repetition I saw was hash tui God is my shepherd lo XR may I never be missing that notion that he's my shepherd what lo f SAR what I hope I'll never be lacking or missing is not a nicer car in a bigger house and more money it's not low F sorry may never be lacking the material things that I want and crave the Loess are what I hope I'll never be lacking or missing is a sense of Hashem Roey to go through life with a confidence to go through life with a palpable almost tangible feeling that he's my shepherd I don't ever have to worry I don't never have to wonder I don't ever have to be nervous or anxious because I know that all that's happening is by design whether it's pleasant or unpleasant whether it's pleasurable or painful but one thing I know is it's not chance or randomness Hashem Roey he is my shepherd and Lois are my hope my dream my aspiration of Lois are now I never be lacking in a sense of Hashem Roey that he's my shepherd that I take that deep breath and I realize let go whatever supposed to happen is going to happen he is shepherding me through this that's how we use it in a verb is Shepherd and he's the Shepherd and he's shepherding me through God forbid a loved one of mine is sick and I'm dominating for their recovery I have financial concerns and the the terrible negative economy I'm worried about how I'm gonna make the simcha whatever I'm going through whatever I'm going through Hashem ro he's my shepherd and he will Shepherd me through it that I don't have to worry and lo X are my hope and my dream is loic's are that I'll never be lacking or missing in the confidence that has generally god you're my shepherd tell me where to walk what are the sheep do they fall in line you ever watch sheep you'll watch the herd they fall in line and they're obedient they're compliant they walk as a group Hashem I'm falling in line you're my shepherd I'm following you tell me where to go you're gonna Shepherd me through whatever it is that I'm facing and I know there will be a tomorrow I know there will be another side I know that there will be as long as I have a breath in my lungs as long as I'm here in this world you will Shepherd me through to the other side I know Hashem early Laura kisana and never be lacking now and then we say shift our whole mission tefa hey million ephraim oniy me Chantal shifter has the staff and me shanterrica me shackle me that which I Michonne that which I lean on hey my own acrimony so the option of whatever says what does it mean Misha antosha hey my and our family made the fact that I can lean on you be a source of comfort to me so it means that not when everything turns out okay but even when it's not okay and I need to lean on you you know you don't need to you don't need to lean on someone when everything is easy when you can balance yourself when you're stable when you're upright when you're strong you don't need to lean on someone when do you need to lean on someone when you feel imbalance when you feel unstable when you feel like you gotta collapse you feel like a weight of the world is on your shoulders when you feel like you're falling apart that's when you need to lean that's when we lean on loved ones and family members it's when we lean on friends you need to lean on somebody so Hashem says original one to say it lean on me Hashem says lean on me and I will keep you strong lean on me ooh me shantak ah the fact that you are Shem are my mission I can lean on you hey my yanaka Moony that's what comforts me you know what comforts me comforts me what does comfort cover doesn't replace what I'm missing comfort doesn't bring a loved one back to life comfort doesn't put money back in my bank account comfort doesn't put the world back to normal but you know what comfort does it says you're giving me the strength you're giving me the courage to be able to get through this to endure so Michonne taaha the fact that you are mine Michonne that I can lean on you Hema in acrimony that's what I take comfort in that's what gives me comfort that's what comforts me it gives me the strength that gives me the capacity gives me the courage to be able to get through whatever I need to anyway I happened to see that last week so I want to share that with you Hashem Rui I shouldn't you're my shepherd and therefore lo XR may I never be lacking or missing and the presence of mind to know that you're my shepherd and you will Shepherd me through whatever it is I face Nishant aha hey Monica Mooney the fact that I could lean on you made that itself be be a source of great comfort to me okay all that is point number one point number two is I tell you I've said countless times how our family and I've encouraged you to have a family whatsapp practice whatsapp group following again the inspiration of Jakob kamenets commercial Feist and others who said if you want to grow your baton and emunah if you want to grow with a mindfulness and a consciousness that a Shem is involved in your life then train yourself to see him as involved in your life and there's no better way to train yourself to see him than to see him and record it write it down share it scream it from the rooftops you tell it to your closest confidant but tell people and articulate and record how you see Hashem in your life on a regular basis so when I first learned that I share this countless times we started a family maha practice whatsapp group in lay a little dormant as we were living on top of one another for a while but it's back active and alive families posting all kinds of things that they experienced amazing I've gotta practice I'll tell you a great one from this week get back to the text I share it not because we're better or different but hopefully trying to inspire and ignite a fire in you to do the same with one other person or with your whole family and simply as you live your life it changes the reality of the way you live you're not living in in black and white you're living in high definition color because throughout your day you're looking to see is there a story I could put on the chat is there something a voice note I could leave about where I saw and how I felt I chemin in my life today and the result is to go back and to look and to listen to all of those and realize wow look how involved he is in our lives and our family look at the good and even the bad and the ugly it's all it's all for my Shem so last Friday last Friday my beautiful mischievous son and his sister were in the backyard and we have a outdoor speaker that sits under a piece of outdoor furniture to protect it sits on the ground under that outdoor furniture and is the outdoor speaker of you outside you cannot listen to music they decided to lift it up the speaker and to put it on top of the chair the piece of furniture and to torture their mother or to keep making it louder and to keep turning it on to keep telling it off to keep changing the music on it and they were having a good time as beautiful mischievous children it might and they left the speaker there on top of the chair and I would normally be upset why'd you touch it why'd you move it why'd you lift it why'd you put it back but you may remember this past Friday afternoon Boca ratone was struck by 55 mile an hour winds and a torrential downpour and hail and most of the other plagues the likes of which I've never seen before the rain was going down upside down sideways and in every single direction the street flooded trees burned down branches were down it was literally like a hurricane and when it was over and we looked outside we saw the expensive speaker was not sitting on the ground where it would have been sitting in a lake of water and destroyed and need to be replaced but the haschke practice that the mischievous kids chose to be mischievous specifically on that afternoon and lift that speaker in a way that actually saved it their parents lots of money lots of lessons to be learned number one don't always be quick to react and get angry maybe even the mischievous child is doing you a favor even if you don't see it in a moment but number two again rush careful practice 100 our practice that was the day they chose to be mischievous with that device in a way that actually saved us that device because otherwise it would have been underwater and utterly destroyed okay back to our text so what we the Bellamy's been developing the idea that be tone is when we realize the best version of ourselves which is the godly version of ourselves when we recognize that the external version of ourselves is engaged in a battle from when we wake up in the morning till we fall asleep at night do I get out of bed and what do I eat healthy or unhealthy and do I say that gossip and will I be late can I concentrate sure and what will I wear and even before we started our day we've battled and we are exhausted that is the external sense of self it cannot help a bug battle its battling coronavirus its battling economies its battling uncertainty its battling everything in the world battle battle battle fight fight fight exhausted but there's an internal voice a better sense of self there's that element Kim the godliness in us and it knows that the world is operating in a harmony and there's no such thing as a battle not the red light not the delayed flight not the canceled meeting not the bad news not the updated data not that there's no such thing because the whole world is operating in harmony because it's operating at the will of Hashem so when I live my flustered chaotic frustrated anxious envious arrogant life that's because I am only listening to my external voice and I'm only fighting that outer battle but when I listen to that internal voice but I remind myself of Who I am and who I can be when I look through the world of the filter that I might say lamella Kim I'm a prince of princess I am royalty I am a peace of God in this world and I see through that filter I had that LASIK surgery that I'm not making a choice of a moon I wouldn't be Tohono are not a muscle I engage for a moment they actually a sense of vision a filter a way I look at the world and I see hmm everywhere I see a harmony to the universe I'm never battling so externally and Andrew Schwartz has been careful to iterate and reiterate this countless times that it's not that one is fake or false or counted in the others true they're both true the external existence and the physical battles they're all true that's a reality it's a dimension that we're living in it is a perspective that one can see it absolutely is true it's absolutely true on the one hand but it's also equally true that if we realize the internal voice that we can live with a sense of calm and peace and tranquility that we don't have to be envious of others we don't get angry at others and we don't live with anxiety about what will be because we realize that best version of ourselves and I'll show this for him with two momchil ahora meiosis a partially condom you've talked about KOCO after to me that's milli aquamarine south Austria so we talked about when you're lifting the cup to drink and slips out of your hands so we start and we operate the default the assumption is that my muscles will work and my joints will work and my grip will work and I can lift a cop and engage it to my lips and I'll be able to take a sip and I don't even get a thought to it it's so natural it's so taken for granted it's such a given that I'm not even present in doing it because like just assume it I just assume it but a person who really thinks realizes that you know what every muscle that responds to the neurological impulse from my brain every time it doesn't slip out of my hands every time I take a drink and I ingest and I digest and I eliminate the whole process from beginning to end from A to Z none of it is a given and it's all only by the graciousness of God go I and only when it slips out of your hand and do you realize I've lost my grip I'm struggling with what's that called a thright as' or I'm having some other problem with my fingers with my grip or the cop or it could easily slip next time or it splashed and it ruined my club only when it goes wrong do we realized how not a given it was all along how about the graciousness of God go I AMS I'm of lettuce in actual OSHA efficiency is never s shallow yellow hands Magnus the truth is there's nothing in our life that there's no equal and opposing force I'm trying to lift the cup to drink you know what the opposing force is called again I'm giving the most basic example is done I have a cup I have my cup my cup of now cold coffee thanks to thermodynamics entropy no cold I have my cup of coffee and I lift it to my lips to drink and the fact that I can lift it you'll say there's no history there is no opposition that's the easiest thing there's no battle the answer is there is an opposition you know what the opposition is for lifting the cup a little something called gravity gravity is actually pulling the cup down well I am opposing that force by trying to lift it up who is going to win me or gravity well there's a difference between a 400 pound dumbbell and a cup of coffee the cup of coffee my life history has taught me that I'm gonna win now my 8 month old grandson tries to lift the cup of coffee it might as well be a 400 pound dumbbell for him his history teaches him or hasn't told him yet just teaches the people who have to clean up after him that he probably won't win then right there the gravity is still a much greater force on him but I've lived my life 45 years now so after the 8th month I've been successfully able to lift the cup and I say ah is there something challenging me is there an opposing force a my battling when I try to lift the cup to drink the coffee if you would ask me that before I were learning this section I would have said absolutely not but the more you think about it yes there's gravity there's an inertia there's grip there's the muscle and the fibers and the neurons and the joints and there's a million things that I'm battling just to successfully lift a cup of coffee and take a sip and start my day and start my day that's the reality that's the reality so a person needs to not have to say if he did watch it in the nice knowing this there's only one thing on the entire planet there's only the one thing in the universe there's only one thing in the cosmos that we don't have to battle and you know what that is a kodesh bar whoo everything from waking up and getting out of bed from lifting the cup of coffee from everything of our faculties working from things going on time or everything operating the way we want is a battle battle battle battle battle battle battle battle battle there's only one thing that we don't have to battle there's only one thing that has no he snagged us and that is her courage birth of the almighty himself hurricane gone Ke$ha autumny gosh the bats applause prosciutto slow rock or about there are more Leo's mucus little ah so Adam is committed other means ability man I knew kasha maja fakers return on Apollo and LaMarcus Keystone but that's with banana Sodom Keauhou go knave ooh meow face but Indianola at Muskoka shock Alberto shane llama snagged him so you know what only a college portal faces no battles only a college party whoo everything is exactly the way he wants he wills it is exactly the way he wishes for human beings for us finite mere mortals everything technically is a battle so when I live my life absent the consciousness that I need Hashem scalped to succeed in anything I do when I live my life with an arrogance and with an assumption that I'm not needing to battle even in some small way that I'm actually competing with Hashem I think I'm a sham I see myself as a God as a deed as I'm whipping and I was infinite as if everything can happen I can control the cup of coffee I can control my spouse and children I can comply my control my colleagues and employees I can control my rabbis and teachers I can control everything around me I can micromanage I can control I can exert power I will make everything fall into place the way I want the way I wish the way I demand you know what you're doing when you do that you are actually a heretic you're actually an idolatry you're a pagan who's the source of your idolatry your paganism not some external statue you're worshiping yourself when you think you can micromanage and you can control and you're a dictator dictating terms to everything around you and you think that you deserve and you are entitled to live with no opposition with no battling not making space or room for things like gravity or for things like other opinions when you live that way you are competing with Hashem you are denying or depriving Hashem you are actually a pagan idolatry and lemarcus kisora dasa is bonus Adam go knave you're stealing maracas bendy me oh no and you are relating in your imagination as if you have cocoa Scheller College Marco shirt in lemon ogden your acting is if you have the power of God that you don't have to face the things that other people face like aging and like mortality and like gravity and like loss and tragedy and like nature if you think you're above it and you supersede it and you control it then you are actually competing with a sham the first admission first concession to belief in Hashem is to realize not only that he exists but also that he is unique exclusive and singular that only for him is there no his Magnus only for God is there nothing that he has to face or compete or confront only for God does everything happen the way he wants for the rest of us mere mortals from when we wake up in the morning until we fall asleep at night and even throughout our sleep to sleep through a night successfully which the older you get the more you don't take for granted but even while you're asleep I used to say from when you wake up till you fall asleep because I used to sleep like a baby but now I sleep like a baby up every few minutes you sleep like a baby so even while you sleep you can't take for granted that you're facing opposition and it's like this and it's not simple and it's not easy so a person has to know that only by the graciousness of goodness of God go i well I fall asleep I stay asleep I'd be rested from my sleep well I wake up were like be able to overcome the urge to eat the wrong thing say the wrong thing do the wrong thing well I'd be successful in every effort and every attempt and every initiative I take in everything I face I have potential opposition and battle and it's only with a sham and when I arrogantly think I won't or I don't have to and I think I can control and micromanage that I have knocked out God when we kind of show it be tough on ask me be colosso and that's what Rev shorts is telling us is a false sense of self assurance and self-esteem and stuff pride if it just means I know what I'm good at and I'm grateful to God for those gifts and now I use them to advance his interest then there's nothing wrong with it but if I think it empowers me or leaves me in some position that I don't need him or that I won't face any opposition to what I want then it's a terrible terrible mistake because Shaun Obachan was on the co-host of Zoe hetalia show car habit actually nephesh she have a mahkum of Tarpon Makara meet him about cohosh of a Miss English chemist nagged us how the Mia faced lots more psycho maahes err so again it's so critically important to understand and to know I have inside of me two voices I have may external voice my animal voice that thinks I'm in charge I'm in control I'm entitled that sees me as battling all the things that are going on in life and that I deserve to not have to battle I should be able to micromanage and control and that is the inferior part of me that is the worst part of me that is the animal part of me but I also haven't salon elokim I also have inside me a unique and singular expression of our Shem in this world each and every one of us is a piece of him and returned like a coin rights and said guess at Sonic they're just like a person just like a year a Jew has to have a Munna in Hashem you also have to have a Munna in yourself I where do I get a Munna in myself modani ends rambha immunise AHA my your faith god is great whose faith is God great in we have faith in God who is God have faith in his faith in us if we woke up this morning if we can face another day then it means that I shan't has faith in us so says that it casts that sound like rotella kind of lublin if Hashem has faced it and our faith in us then we should have faith in us we should believe in ourselves and believe in our capacity and believe in our competence and believe in our future that the best is yet to come we should never stop believing in ourselves or having faith in ourselves or being hopeful and optimistic for ourselves and for what can be why because we have its elemental Kim because we have a piece of ash Emma knows you see to not believe in ourselves in a sense is not to believe in him because he is inside us that is the better voice that were meant to be listening to the voice of Telemark in the voice of godliness the voice that says the voice that sees the harmony in the universe that is the voice of Hashem I saw a beautiful quote I don't know who said it I apologize I can't give an attribution the quote was every single person is a masterpiece because we're all a piece of the master every person is a masterpiece because we're all a piece of the master that's the notion you're a masterpiece believe in yourself see yourself as being able to operate and engage the world with harmony not always with friction and contentiousness and tension and battling you are a masterpiece and how can you know that because you're a piece of the master because you're a piece of the master and so that's the telling my love came inside us Selam aleykum you're a piece of the master see the world with the harmony in it don't battle and don't fight conning darkness the Kudus hottia me mental no the thesis of otaku anatomy kaha be torrential my nefesh came here country to ephesus should be across the pool of Miss EMS ancient coffee almost maggot Allah so it means to say what schwartz is encouraging here is the level of mindfulness in consciousness which is at such a high level it's really really difficult to achieve even more difficult to maintain and preserve it's really really hard it means to say that when I wake up in the morning and I'm making the cup of coffee and I think I'm in control and I'm in charge and I don't even anticipate that I have any tension and making the cup of coffee first of all to realize I do something called gravity this thing called the electricity to Mike Eric could go out something called it my function there's something called nobody refilled it with water and I have to fill it with water like I always do there's a million things that could go wrong so a person has to realize first of all that only for Hashem does nothing ever go wrong for us anything and everything could always go wrong and the fact that it won't is not because of us it's only because of the graciousness of him so that means that as I make my cup of coffee in everything I do I offer a shtick of Fela I offer them darvany I shall have the cup of coffee go well I shall mom about to lift my cup of coffee let me not drop it let me not spill it let me not burn my mouth on it which is essentially what the broth is charcoal that everything charcoal the amid Varro that prefer Shaco which is the catch or Braco that we say it's not specific bread is how much zeal FM minarets fruit but a pre high eights of the fruit of the tree the vegetable Beaupre ah-dah-mah all the other broth hosts are specific this is the catch-all Braja shackle Nia Bavaro and why do I say the catch-all braja why don't I have a more specific one the answer is because the shock Cole goes not only on not only on the coffee from my first sip it's going on Baraka shame I didn't run out of cake cups and I have the flavors that I like varnish a lie put it in the machine and it produced it worked Baruch Hashem I have a hot cup of coffee Baruch Hashem I'm able to lift it and gravity doesn't cause me to spill it bara Hashem I didn't burn my mouth on charcoal all of this all of this the farmer who planted the coffee beans the one who harvested it the one who grounded the one who produced it in k-cups the manufacturer the one who sent it on trucking and delivered it the one who stored it the delivery man who brought it to my house Cole Jack Cole everything needs Varro it's all your will mush em there were four billion things that could have gone between the coffee curbing growing from the ground and my taking that hot sip of coffee and going into my mouth there were countless endless possibilities of ways it could have gone wrong and it went right and for that I say shackle the Edmond Pharaoh Hashem Shaco all those ways it could have gone wrong and it went right so first of all is the level of consciousness and mindfulness an awareness of what could go wrong don't feel entitled that everything has to go right a lot could go wrong but number two the fact that when it goes right it doesn't go right because you're in charge and you're in control okay you can be proud you remember to order the cups and you stored the cups and you bought the right cups and plugged it in and you're careful and cautious and in the way you handle the way you did all beautiful and wonderful and take pride in your contribution but in the end of the day always remember and live with awareness that ultimately it's up to him so first know that how much could go wrong and then acknowledge that what doesn't go wrong is only because of him and therefore you never nervous because and that seems contradictory if I'm aware of all I could go wrong won't that make me a absolute mess debilitated anxious pile of mess the answer is no because simultaneous our thinking about what could go wrong is trusting and recognizing with my godly voice with the masterpiece the piece of the master in me all that will or can go right because no matter what goes no matter how it works it is by definition right because it's from him that is our mission that is our mandate that is what a life I'd be taught on and I'm gonna look looks like it's the level of mindfulness to remember everything that goes into this cup of coffee Shack oh yeah did Varro became a trainer from zoar mmmm but ma how can I find below mark Charlize votanis most people go through the flow of life without thinking without thinking Harvard psychologist found I think it was 50% of the time that we're doing something 49 point something percent of the time that we're doing something our mind is actually elsewhere half of the time that we're doing something we're thinking about something else so half of you have me right now streaming on your device but you're probably doing something else that's what's it's that's what the statistics stay and that's probably why your cameras are off and I don't blame you your multitasking or you are actually doing something else all too I'm just joking but half the time that we're doing something we're actually doing something else we're not present we're not mindful we're not engaged we're not conscious and therefore we're literally not hearing the people around us they're speaking to us and we're only hearing them at best superficially it's not actually penetrating we're not absorbing we're not understanding we're not thinking we're not following up we're not asking it's not moving us and transforming us half of the experiences we have are only superficial they're so shallow because we're multitasking because we're not really present in anything that we're doing that is a plague of our generation it's the gift of Technology but the plague of Technology the fact that we're not fully mindful at present and anything that we're doing were struggling embolic let's feast on with these chamois across the pool is Missy MOC Ashburn , fats me Shan Louis snagged us and why is that how come fifty percent of the time we're not present in what we're doing because fifty percent of the time were on what we call autopilot we're on autopilot I'm making my cup of coffee on autopilot I'm driving to the store on autopilot I'm even talking you're listening to you and I'm exercising an autopilot I'm cooking on autopilot I'm doing all that I'm doing on autopilot and we're so proud of our autopilot as if it's an achievement and to a certain degree it is however it's also robbing us of our presence of our mindfulness of our consciousness it's robbing us of our relationships of our experiences it's robbing us on our opportunities and our transformation c'mon eat suckle Adam Cain Kafka's ebony fish the Reuben cocoon is a kind be across the pool of cyclist our postures shoot oh shoot we are home as soon as the camera bianna Adam so for most people we think I'm on autopilot faced opposition when washing the dishes our position when driving to the store facing his not in this opposition when I'm lifting my cup of coffee what are you talking about what in the world are you talking about I'm on autopilot not only am I not facing obstacles in our position I'm not even thinking about it I'm on total autopilot while I'm doing it but that's a mistake it's a terrible mistake mamela who Beaute after the Kohala asked me about sun so what is the autopilot loosely translate to and man autopilot means I'm on auto I'm on trusting in me I'm on thinking I haven't handled I'm on thinking that I'm in control I'm on thinking that it's all up to me that I'm entitled to it going the way I want that what autopilot loosely translates to I'm in control it's all up to me I've got it covered I am entitled to it happening the way I want that's essentially what I'm saying when I say autopilot the poulos ioser crushes and recovers she a sequence econ the quiche alone Brahmastra I shall be talking to mr. miacca since the record when you say we should call them so what happens only when you can't go on autopilot is when you start to turn your faith in Hashem a loved one is waiting for a diagnosis a lab report I loved one weird Avenue that they have a full recovery that they get better and then you say well I'm not even in the hospital room I don't control the Machine I don't do the surgery not only am I not on autopilot I'm on a pilot I'm not on auto I'm not on anything that's when we recognize first that there's opposition but you know there's as much tension in opposition and possibility of things going wrong am I making my cup of coffee as there isn't my loved one undergoing surgery it's one I think I can control and the other I acknowledge and concede I can't Misha can be a fun action by any ants monkey mood /bf has the two met will miss Yemen as I who Yosemite aqua coho by Faramir who she she was about human in cars cooking with the a finish my list not full of talk about college bar who our mission in our mandate is to realize that the success of the outcome of Mikawa or the success of my drinking a cup of coffee the success of my driving unscathed to the store is no more a given and the outcome is just as complicated as going under the knife for a serious surgery again not so that you become panicked and debilitated and anxious but the opposite so that we realize all of the goodness that we have to rely on that we recognize the small will of torque bash em to trust and to rely mission tech Rahimi Annika Mooney that the fact that we can lean on him is the source of comfort in our life is a kookn Luciana - Maya that we need sea otter - Maya what are the words sea otter - Maya - Maya means of heavens of a Shem sea otter Cu amines the help the support of Hashem I need see after the schmeyer to make a cup of coffee to make breakfast to get dressed to go to work we need see after the schmeyer to successfully accomplish achieve anything and everything in our lives and that's what it means to live a life of be tough mañana muna it's not just to see him when you need him but the CM even or especially when you think you don't even when you think you've got it covered and you're on autopilot to recognize you can never as long as you're fallible and human as long as you're finite and limited you are never on autopilot and we always need him it's a level of consciousness we can strive for together it's a level of mindfulness that we could achieve to see the sea otter - Maya that's what we learned the Schloss said this on the parsha a few weeks ago the idea of a Jew says Baruch Hashem and by Ezra session and of Cass - M and Bonifacio we use that language again not that Court not not casually or callously we use the language hopefully mindfully when we saved the Ezra session oh I'll meet you there at this time with Hashem sup with God's help why are we saying that because we're trying to remind ourselves that even that which we think is a given are we taken for granted it's only with God's help oh are you getting up off the couch with God's help can you bring me a cup of coffee with God's help what time will you be with God's help everything is with God's help even that which we think is so simple so insignificant it's all with God's help and again if there's anyone who can appreciate how it's all with God's help I sometimes feel like we're living the plagues one by one these days between this coronavirus and the pandemic wouldn't expect and then friday this incredible storm that nobody saw coming and the aftermath had left in its way yesterday a beloved family in our community experienced a tragedy their house literally burned to the ground thank God no one was in it and everyone's safe but all their belongings with the exception of a safer told her that was housed in their home the sefer Torah is in perfect condition the fire didn't touch it and not one drop of water of the Fire Department putting out the fire touched it inexplicably the safer Torah is in perfect condition though I'm very cautious and celebrating that fact because they lost all of their possessions but each day you don't know what its gonna bring so anyone who thinks arrogantly that I can be confident and I can take for granted that tomorrow will be like today hasn't lived yesterday and the day before because one thing we're learning in our time is the humility of realizing the absolute humility of realizing that I never know what's going to be and there's nothing I can take for granted and therefore only by the graciousness of God go I push bar who continue continue to shower your love Hashem Rho EU our Shepherd Shepherd us through whatever we go through Lois are they we never be lacking or missing or deficient in our recognition that Hashem that we that you are my shepherd and whatever we go through me shanty huh even if a person's house burns to the ground or we go through a loss 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